Germany Says Us Tapped Angel Merkel's Phone

the German but english-language news website the local is reporting that Germany believes that the United States was tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone the Chancellor spoke to President Obama to complain about allegations that her mobile phone was targeted by the NSA the new site Spiegel reported yesterday that Merkel's mobile phone may have been spied on by the US and the German Chancellor is taking it very very seriously she's demanding an explanation she saying that if it is true it would be quote completely unacceptable she *** President Obama and made clear that she quote unequivocally disapproves such practices should they be confirmed and regards them as completely unacceptable the evidence for this claim came from spiegel which broker a number of stories any number one when might say about a master veils program by the NSA which of course we are now increasingly familiar with because if the leaks a bad word snowden at the evidence or has also been viewed by the German security services and was regarded as plausible enough to warrant getting I Chancellor Merkel on the phone with president Obama the president this this is the key part the president assured the Chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications up the Chancellor that statement from White House spokesman Jay Carney what's conspicuously missing from is not and will not louis did not if that's exactly right did not seems to not be part of that and when there were there were some attempts at follow-up questions you can assume correctly that they went absolutely nowhere I'm actually curious Louis what if President Obama took total ownership love this I don't know I know this won't happen but what if what if you were to say I hey you know what yeah we did it and this isn't that uncommon there's a lot of people doing and we're admitting that we're doing it and we keep our friends you know our enemies our friends close and your enemies closer or whatever term you want to use maybe he keeps friends even closer since it's an ally and saying we trust you were just you know trust but verify that's what we're doing we're gonna keep an eye on you and you know to quote Walter Way in Breaking Bad you're dealing with me now what would happen I there would be a massive s storm the likes of which you know we we've never seen in this country bigger than Obamacare to be to be perfectly honest it I find it incredible that that not only is it not enough to have 50 military bases in germany we apparently also have to be monitoring the phone calls up a chance for this is our this is taking things too and you are yet maybe that's not that good of an idea is it that have actually really good point met you know I've always said maybe instead of whatever it is 40 me 40 army bases and and more other a branch of the military bases instead of 40 army bases maybe we would be just the safe with 20 in Germany and we could save a ton of money if we're gonna be monitoring Angela Merkel's phone calls maybe we could even drop it like 12 or 13 German military bases and we'd still be it but we'd still be safe seems like all we need to do is monitor the phone call I pretty much know everything that's going on right we can get rid of all the bases